Car destroyed by fire after hitting gas meter

About 5:30 p.m., emergency responders were called to the Northside Club, 107 N. Hughes St., where an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting was taking place. A man driving a Chevy Lumina had dropped off a friend at the east side of the building and circled behind the building, where he told police the sun obstructed his vision and he hit a gas meter, police said.

The driver and a female passenger escaped the car unharmed, police said.

No arrests were made and the fire did not reach the building, police said.

The car was completely destroyed before firefighters extinguished the blaze, and the driver estimated the car’s value to be about $600, police said.

On the heels of the state approving a code clearing the way for municipalities to regulate commercial ground vehicle operators at airports, the City of Amarillo has approved an ordinance to do so at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport.